About this project

$800

pledged of $500 goal

26

backers

Flinching
Eye Collective is a group of
new-media artists located in the Denver-Boulder, Colorado region. Since autumn
of 2011, F.E.C. have been performing regularly in
various alternative art spaces within the Colorado area. At the end of
May 2012 they are embarking on a one-week traveling performance exhibition
running from the Southwest, up to Salt Lake City then landing back in Denver. This
traveling exhibition is titled “Flinching Eye Collective presents: Atemporal Radio Tour: A Traveling Sound
Performance”.

Each show will be a collection of live
performances, video works, and mixed-media collaborations within the group. On
May 27th, at the University of Utah’s Black Box Theater, the
collective will take a different route and perform a larger-scale, circus-esque
production, taking on an alternative version to their line-up, and
experimenting with each other within the site specificity of the theater.

Flinching Eye’s shared explorations come from a
concentration of sound into a set of constraints and queries bringing about a
new relationship to the auditory experiences that pass through us every day.
Experimental composer John Cage once said, “Wherever we are, what we hear is
mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find
it fascinating”. It is this exploration of noise and its relationship to the
body that is at the heart of Flinching
Eye Collective. Their process and attitude has its histories in artists
like John Cage, or the Neo-Dadaists, such as Joseph Beuys, with their
curiosities lying heavily on the indeterminate
act within a larger visual culture. All artists within the group, with their
various interests in divergent media, have a focused consideration of the sonic experience and how that experience
develops, changes and collapses within differing architectural and social
spaces. Entry to the exhibitions will be open to the public and the entry cost
is donation based. Shows will begin at 7PM. For more information please visit
their website http://flinchingeyecollective.tumblr.com.
Featured artists/acts include: